floatation

Questions about floatation

What does floatation mean?

floatation means "the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in floatation?

floatation has 5 syllables: flo-a-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for floatation?

Close synonyms include flotation, flotation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floatation a common word?

floatation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.